Sanjay Sami

You will certainly find scaff clamps in Delhi. My regards to Marcus. Have a great shoot. Call if you need help with anything.

Hi Alex,

There are several ways to do a really fast move. 2 people pushing is not at all a problem, as long as you have a system going. On the movie "The Darjeeling Limited" I had several dolly moves that ranged from 250ft to 310 ft. Most of them were really fast, flat out moves tracking with actors chasing cars, taxis and trains. We had a Fisher 10 with 3 people on board - DoP, Focus Puller and Director. I was pushing along with one of my best boy grips. It worked great. We needed 4 people to stop the dolly though. 2 of them were on "parachutes" - ropes tied from the dolly to speed rail handles. take a look

http://www.thegripworks.com/projects/project-darjeeling.html

If you want to go a lot faster than you can run there are ways to do that as well. If you dont have access to motordrive track, or a captive track dolly , you can use a regular dolly on track, remote head and focus, and rope the dolly through pulleys to have a mechanical disadvantage (more speed for less distance) Run the rope to a Quad / ATV and use it to accelerate the dolly. Mark a spot to stop the Quad so you dont pull the dolly off track. Use a bungee decellerator or a cable fan descender to stop the dolly depending on the weight of the dolly.

Hope that helps

Regards

Sanjay Sami

Key Grip

Welcome to India,

You will find very little worthwhile equipment in Delhi. Mumbai is the biggest centre for the film business. Hyderabad and Chennai have big rental houses as well. Warwick is correct about the fisher and chapman dollies. This is primarily due to the fact that government import laws do not allow equipment to be brought in on long term lease. I bring fisher and chapman dollies to india on a project basis . I own the new panther classic dollies and lots of other grip equipment. You can take a look on my website www.thegripworks.com

Regards

Sanjay Sami

Key Grip

The Grip Works

I think Warwick was offering well intentioned advice. Maybe you should quit being a hobbyist and become a pro. That way you can buy real equipment, shoot with real film and get paid to do it rather that think about using 50$ camera heads. (Get the Oconnor 2575C) ;)

Sanjay Sami

Key Grip

Hey all,

 

I am desperately trying to find the exact dimensions (well, the diameters) for 180 degrees of various Precision (aluminum) curved track. On Fisher's site, it really only lists the 45-degree curved (which is 20'). And that's steel track (although they should be the same). The rest of the diameters listed are for their square tube track.

 

Does anyone have the diameters for all various degrees of Precision (aluminum) curved round-tube track? (looking at standard 24.5" track for Fisher dollies).

 

Thanks :)

Hi Dan

Standard curved track (45 degrees a piece) will give you a circle with an Outer Diameter of 20 feet.

A tight circle (90 degrees a peice) will give you a circle with an Outer Diameter of 14 feet.

Some companies (Filmair in North America & South Africa / Panther & GFM in Europe - and maybe Solid Grip Systems as well Onno?) make a very tight circle which will give you a 9ft 6inch circle. You will certainly need articulated skate channels for such a tight circle , such as those made by Portaglide or fishers new wheels.

Hope that helps .

Sanjay Sami

Key Grip

www.thegripworks.com

Hi Dan,

I would seriously advise against using a telescoping riser on a slider (or any riser for that matter). The slider is likely to get damaged by the leverage generated from the weight riding that high above the carriage. Having said that I would not really recommend rigging the slider on the bazooka either. It is likely that you will damage the slider with the weight cantilevered at one end on a moving car.

In my opinion Victors method is the safe way to go. If you use Ronford Bakers sliders they come with speedrail adaptors that make a rig like that very quick to adjust.

Take a look at the way I have rigged a slider for this shot. It was for a car chase sequence and I had to track the camera under a moving truck and out the other side - http://www.thegripworks.com/rigging.html

Hope that helps

Regards

Sanjay Sami

Key Grip

www.thegripworks.com